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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Alexander A. Smith, Carrollton, TX (US);
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics, Inc., Carrollton, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/14 ;
Abstract
An Ethernet device and the method for applying back pressure within an Ethernet communication network comprising the steps of asserting a back pressure pin of a media access control unit associated with a network communications port of an Ethernet device. In response to asserting the back pressure pin, only the back pressure continuous preamble of a packet is transmitted without a start-of-frame delimiter onto the network.